October 2024
How Australia can fix America’s broken election system
Voters in seven US states will vote to adopt Australian-style preferential voting as electoral reformers try to move American politics back to the centre.
March 2024
Why women will swing the US election
Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was an attempt to recapture the 2022 midterm wave driven by women angry about reproductive rights.
January 2024
How Tina Fey became ‘the most powerful woman in comedy’
The comedian has never kowtowed to cancel culture, but she has slightly reworked the musical version of her 2004 hit “Mean Girls” to acknowledge changing mores.
What makes Nikki Haley tougher than the rest
She grew up in the only Indian American family in a small working-class South Carolina town.
June 2021
Where is Trump now? Florida coast becomes Republican power base
Lured south by sunshine, golf and money, the former president’s allies and hangers-on have formed an alternate universe that revolves around Mar-a-Lago.
February 2021
The impeachment trial no one but Trump wants
The Donald Trump media juggernaut ground to a halt once he was deplatformed from social media, but this week’s trial puts the former president firmly back in the spotlight.
November 2020
Obama’s memoir is a ripping read until he gets to the White House
After detailing a thrilling ride to the presidency, Barack Obama gives an honest account of his time in office that stops consistently short of the whole truth.
July 2020
The real threat to liberalism will come after Trump
US liberals have not had to contend with the fusion of populist ideas and operational nous. That luck seems unlikely to last.
March 2020
Joe Biden's VP pledge may help break glass ceiling
The US lags other democracies but if Biden wins and a woman becomes vice president, voters could become used to having a woman at the pinnacle of power.